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Definition of Clutter up

1. Verb. Fill a space in a disorderly way.

Definition of Clutter up

1. Verb. to fill with rubbish ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clutter Up

Literary usage of Clutter up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives by United States Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture (1922)
"... but I am not going to clutter up or complicate this proceeding before the committee now by an inquiry into the Sugar Equalization Board. ..."

2. The Modern English Verb-adverb Combination by Arthur Garfield Kennedy (1920)
"... clear up, clog up, cloud up, clutter up, color up 'to blush,' cook up, cram up (for an examination), cripple up, curl up (sometimes literally), daub up, ..."

3. Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art, and National by John Walter Osborne (1868)
"... he has given up drinking wine ; he has given up going to the theatre ; he has given up driving, or buying books, which "only clutter up the house. ..."

4. Mark Twain: A Biography : the Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne by Albert Bigelow Paine (1912)
"Piles of still-bundled flags clutter up the ombra (to be put up), also gaudy shields of various shapes (arms of this and other countries), also some huge ..."

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